[Psudo]

Quantum_Wizard wrote:

Psudo wrote:

But the USA, precisely because it has no official language, ends up providing governmental services in many hundreds of languages and employs many thousands of interpreters.

I'd say this is not because of the lack of an official language. Many governments offer services in languages other than the official ones.

That's basically true, but (I believe by law, though perhaps by custom in some cases) leaves the onerous of providing interpreters or other language services on the government itself rather than on the individual seeking those services. We provide services in all languages precisely because we have no official language, and many Americans advocate to make English the official language precisely to shed that governmental duty.

I do not. I don't think the financial savings and logistic aid of English as an official language is worth compromising the Statue of Liberty's call to the world to send us their huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I think English as an official language is just another door shut in the faces of the outside world, and I oppose that elitist, isolationist attitude.

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

This isn't about justice, it's about some asshole and his nuisance lawsuits to line his pockets further.

I completely agree. To prevent further abuse of the law, ACPPA1985 § 10 ¶ 1 should be amended.

[Kjorteo]

Brenda wrote:

I didn't realize the names for 7-up OR Sprite were different in French. (they are f*cking American names, American Brands. Sprite is from the Coca Cola Company, and 7-up is from PepsiCo. WTF??)

I guess I have a different name in French name too then?

The trick is you have to say it in your best John Cleese voice or it doesn't count.

Also, just because I don't exactly get to say this sentence every day, I completely agree with everything Psudo just said.

[DanSC]

I need to brush up on my French Phrases. If I could take just one flight a month, I could be living quite comfortably.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

DanSC wrote:

I need to brush up on my French Phrases. If I could take just one flight a month, I could be living quite comfortably.

Won't work for you. The language law doesn't apply to visitors.

[Saffron]

"In 2009, while flying on an Air Canada flight between the two English-speaking cities of Toronto and Atlanta, he ordered a Spite in French only to receive — wait for it — a 7-Up instead."

A Spite, huh? Freudian slip?

[Psudo]

He asked for a Spite, and they told him to Make 7-Up Yours.

[Kjorteo]

Thread over, Psudo wins.